Thread: Mexico: "15 Executed in the last 24 hours"

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website at: http://www.nafbpo.org

Foreign News Report

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

El Universal (Mexico City) 1/19/08 1. headline: "15 Executed in the last 24 hours" In events linked to organized crime 15 persons were murdered in the last 24 hours in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora, Baja California, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas. The Tamaulipas case occurred in Reynosa where a man was found wrapped, blindfolded and tied up despite the presence of military forces in the area. (note: this newspaper tried to consolidate all the various reports into one article; it failed because additional such events also took place at least in Oaxaca and Mexico City, where the gore included the case of a young victim tied with wire and whose decapitation out in the open wasn't quite finished because third parties interrupted the butchery and caused the killers to make an abrupt departure.)

2. The newspaper cites an unidentified report by the Mexican federal government which says that the following, latest generation U.S. Army weapons are now in the hands of the Gulf Cartel. - FN Herstal P90 (900 rounds/min. & armor piercing up to 200 meters) - FN Herstal 5.7x28mm., "cop killer", since it goes through up to 48 kevlar covers used in bullet proof vests. - M72 & AT4 rockets; RPG-7 rocket launchers; 37mm. MGL grenade launchers And, in the Tijuana Cartel, 50mm. Barret semi-automatic rifles. ----------------

a.b.c. (Mexico City) 1/19/08 34 kilometers south of Culiacan, near Pueblos Unidos, Sinaloa, in an abandoned and bullet-riddled SUV : three men, handcuffed to the seats, blindfolded, with signs of torture and shot to death with assault rifles. This latest location is quite close to where the murdered judge reported yesterday was found. ------------------

El Diario (Chihuahua, Chih.) 1/19/08 Search of a farm at Luz Corral de Villa St. # 2415, Chihuahua City, revealed a "narco grave" with six human remains, two of which might be those of two police officers who have disappeared. ------------------

El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 1/19/08 Two "wrapped" male murder victims were found on the west side of Nogales, Sonora. Their faces were taped and they had been beaten before being repeatedly shot. -------------------

La Jornada (Mexico City) 1/19/08 Mexican Special Forces personnel went into the Nuevo Laredo "Preventive Police" facility and questioned, disarmed and took away all other police equipment from six members of the police. The six were later transported to Mexico City where they will be confined for further interrogation. -----------------

Milenio (mexico City) 1/19/08 A total of 91 Central & South American illegal aliens were detained by Mexican federal agents in four different states. Twenty-six were found in a hotel in Tabasco and all others were detained while being transported northbound. ------------------

El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 1/19/08 Eva Sacasa, the Nicaraguan director of a U.N. "development program" told a "100% Noticias" program that there are more than 2 million illegal firearms in Central America, including Belize and Panama and that they are in the hands of gangs, drug traffickers and organized mafia groups. The U.N. program aims to control and reduce the traffic in firearms. ------------------ -end of 01/19/2008 report-

La Prensa (Mexico City) ("O.E.M.": large nationwide newspaper chain) 1/18/08 The "Permanent Commission" of the Mexican Senate "expressed its most energetic repudiation concerning the xenophobic actions materialized in the United States against Mexican emigrants." A resolution approved by senators of all political parties "also stated its opposition to round-ups and massive deportations of Mexicans carried out by American immigration authorities." The accord exhorts the Executive Branch to use all diplomatic and consular channels for the purpose of emphasizing protective and defensive activities for those countrymen victims of human rights violations in the neighboring country. It also condemned the construction by the United States of a fence on the northern border and pointed out that neither fences nor restrictive walls are what is needed to stimulate the integration and cooperation between the two nations. The legislators stated they were for an "integral migratory reform" which supports a framework of shared responsibility, aids family reunification and preserves human rights and international law. ---------------

El Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yuc.) 1/18/08 A ship on-board container at the port of Manzanillo, Colima, (JUST SOUTH OF PUERTO VALLARTA) was found to have 500 kilos of cocaine. The drug was in 1,165 boxes of tennis shoes labeled "Buble Gummers" (sic). The container came on a ship from the port of Callao, Peru. ----------------

El Bravo (Tamaulipas), El Universal (Mexico City) 1/18/08 Some of the Mexican Special Forces, so-called "Red Berets", which arrived in the Tamaulipas area a couple of days ago are now stationed at all the international border crossing bridges that Tamaulipas has with the United States except for two where naval forces have been posted since last year. Further, the Red Berets have suddenly and without warning taken over the customs clearance functions and have replaced, not augmented, the Mexican customs officials at those crossings. They are also inspecting and questioning northbound traffic. El Universal questioned the legality of the customs function takeover. ------------------

El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 1/18/08 Filemon Cota Molina, 51, a judge at Elota, Sinaloa, was found in his home with his face down and "wrapped", his hands and feet tied, and beaten to death. -------------------

El Diario (Chihuahua, Chih.) 1/18/08 In the city of Chihuahua at dawn today Jose Angel Castillo, a police officer, became the latest fatal victim of a "narco shooting." And Saulo Reyes Gamboa, Director of Public Security of Ciudad Juarez from 2004 to 2007, was arrested in El Paso for drug trafficking after trying to bribe a man he believed to be a corrupt U.S. customs official to attempt to arrange the passage of marihuana loads through the ports of entry. His arrest also led to the seizure of 985 lbs. of marihuana at a suburb of El Paso.

La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 1/18/08 In Mexico, at least twenty police officers have been murdered by organized crime in the first 17 days of 2008 (note: the description of the various crimes did not include the agent killed in yesterday's shootout in Tijuana)

Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 1/18/08 318 carjackings took place in Juarez in 2007 (AT LEAST THOSE WERE THE reported ONES)

El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 1/18/08 - AFP news agency - A new European Union directive about the detention and expulsion of undocumented aliens could be adopted tomorrow and several organizations have called for a protest against the proposal. If approved by the EU council of ministers, illegal aliens could be held for up to 18 months and be barred from entering European territory for five years.

Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 1/18/08 headline: "Shootout generates terror; six executed are found" (Full transl. of article) Tijuana lived moments of panic for more than three hours due to a confrontation between police and military against members of organized crime, which ended with the capture of four delinquents and the finding of six dead bodies in a safe house. Six of the lifeless bodies which were found inside the house on Agua Prieta St., in Colonia Cortez, are believed to be kidnapping victims and were gagged and had been given a coup de grace shot. The shootout against the criminals which took place between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. yesterday left three agents wounded, an officer who later lost his life due to firearm wounds and a criminal who was found dead inside the house. Concerning the persons arrested, the "SSPF" (Secretaria de Seguridad Publica Federal) reported that they are the policemen Roman Gamez Osuna and Carlos Alberto Espinoza Vega, besides two other hired killers who are part of the Arellano Felix brothers criminal group. Inside the house authorities also found two suburban vehicles (sic) and a Chevrolet Tahoe with strobe lights, three bullet proof vests, eleven long weapons (read: shoulder firearms) and 30 clips.

(note: other articles about this shootout said that the Tijuana police radio frequency was repeatedly used during the event to make death threats against the police and at the end they played a "narco-corrido", a "narco" lyrics Mexican/country theme song on the police radio.) -----------------end of 01/18/08 report-

El Financiero (Mexico City), Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 1/15/08 An "armed group" executed the chief of the La Mesa division of the Tijuana police and the "general supervisor" of Tijuana's police at midnight last night. Initial reports state the two were in a vehicle that was fired upon with high caliber weapons by occupants of another vehicle. Hours later, armed subjects burst into the house of the chief of the Los Pinos division of the Tijuana police and shot him and his daughter dead. His wife and three other children were wounded. The wife died later at a hospital. Then, a revenge assault by some killers (the press reports could not say if this was the same group that had caused the prior deaths) apparently went to the wrong house in Tijuana and killed the man there and also a 3 year old and an 8 year old. Tijuana is practically under siege by personnel of all law enforcement agencies today. (note: while this bloodbath is going on, the news agencies have spread the item about the mislabeled "tear gas attacks by the Border Patrol" in Tijuana as far as press sources in Argentina, Spain and Cuba. At the same time, activists in Mexico are demanding that charges against the Border Patrol be filed with the Inter American Human Rights Commission.) -------------------

El Universal (Mexico City) 1/15/08 - Record in "narcoexecutions" : 105 in less than 15 days - 14 persons were murdered in Mexico in the last few hours - The equivalent period in 2006 resulted in 80 homicides linked to organized crime, while 2007's total reached 90. -------------------

El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 1/15/08 (note: main headline, updating El Universal's report "17 executed in the country." Near northern Sonora state, soldiers seized "almost" two tons of marihuana, six vehicles, six rifles, a pistol and ammunition (not specified). That makes for four tons of marihuana so far this year in northern Sonora. The find was near La Colonia ranch, on the San Joaquin border, Saric, Sonora. -------------------

a.m. (Leon, Guanajuato) 1/15/08 96 police officers in Celaya, Guanajuato, have previous criminal records including rape, torture, aiding the escape of prisoners, aggravated assault and others. The officers involved include a number in various supervisory ranks. Local authorities are now considering the matter.

Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla Chiapas) 1/15/08 In Las Casas, Chiapas, police found 19 undocumented Guatemalans and Salvadorans about to die from asphyxia. They were found stuffed inside the double-bottom of a truck; the local head of the Mex. immigration office said he doubted the 19 would have been alive by the time the truck reached the next town, Tuxtla, less than an hour away.

El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 1/15/08 At 2 a.m. yesterday, a group of 30 would-be emigrants was arrested by Ecuadorean police "a few meters" from the beach and the launch in which they would start their voyage to the United States. The group included at least two teenage girls. A second group managed to escape. (note: these groups reportedly board launches which ferry them to larger sized vessels in which they journey to Central American countries, thence to the U.S. by land.) ---

"15 Executed in the last 24 hours" In events linked to organized crime 15 persons were murdered in the last 24 hours in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora, Baja California, Chihuahua and Tamaulipas.

Well thank goodness we now require a passport when we cross the Canadian border, lolol... How many times have you driven down your interstate highway to see Canadians pouring out of paint contractors vans? In North Carolina, a van hits a red light (if they bother to stop), about 10 hispanics coming flying out the back door.

Milenio (mexico City) 1/19/08 A total of 91 Central & South American illegal aliens were detained by Mexican federal agents in four different states. Twenty-six were found in a hotel in Tabasco and all others were detained while being transported northbound. ------------------

Transported northbound---does this mean they were taken to the Mexican/US border and released or something else?

Fences make good neighbors.